Findings from the 1st EuroRoadS workshop:
Building a European Road Data
Infrastructure
held on September 15th in Brussels,
Belgium
The workshop was very well
received. It attracted the right audience – more than 40
participants from some 30 different public and private sector
organisations – and the participants showed a great interest in the
project and contributed actively in the discussions.
Presentations were given on the status and expected results
of the project, user requirements and the
need for a European road data solution etc. The aim of the workshop
was to:
- inform about the scope and work programme of the project,
- present and discuss preliminary results and findings,
- co-ordinate with related projects and initiatives,
- and establish efficient co-operation with the reference
groups, participants in surveys carried out within the project
and other interested parties.
Read about the
workshop outcomes here!
EuroRoadS at the World Congress on ITS in Japan
 The
EuroRoadS project was presented and discussed at the world
congress
on ITS in Nagoya, Japan. The Congress,
with the theme "ITS for livable society", was held on October 18-23
and gathered approximately 5,000
participants including over 700 Europeans, 50,000 exhibition participants and
more than 500,000 persons attended all the events relevant to
ITS taking place in Japan.
The success of the Congress shows that the world is aware
of the potential of ITS and believe in such systems which can
provide lasting solutions for safety and multi-modal mobility.
The next world congress on ITS will be held on
November 6-10, 2005 in San Francisco, USA, the congress theme will be
“Enabling Transportation Choices”.- For more information:
www.itsworldcongress.org
Findings from the 2nd EuroRoadS workshop
on
Specification framework
held in Paris on November 2-3
The aim of the workshop was
to go into detail concerning the establishment of a specification
framework that will underpin interoperability in the handling of
road data between organisations and countries in Europe.
The workshop, which was held
at the head office of Institut Géographique National (IGN, France),
attracted 17 participants from 10 different organisations. The
participants represented different areas of expertise
(standardisation, data modelling, quality methods, marketing, etc),
which implied valuable outcomes from the workshop.
Read more
here!
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Public Reports
EuroRoadS has published two
public reports
“Quality frame for information” and
“Preliminary
findings and directions for the specification work”, presented on
www.euroroads.org.
Brochure
EuroRoadS has published
an information brochure on the project.
You can download
the brochure here.
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